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Boot takes long time. Accessing Floppy

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by justme2007 2 views

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I have a friend with a computer that has a problem at start up. His computer tries to access the floppy drive for about 3-5 minutes. If he waits his computer starts fine. Is there any way to fix this? Is it a bad floppy drive? Is it a bad something else? I don't know much about the situation, but I can find out more, just ask.

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by maxwell edison

This may indicate that a floppy drive is faulty or becoming faulty. If that same floppy drive works ok otherwise, such as reading diskettes ok, it's probably alright.

However, if it spends 3-5 minutes on boot up (but otherwise works ok), I'd gointo the BIOS and change some settings.

Make the hard drive (C-Drive)the first boot device.

Make the same hard drive (C-Drive) the second boot device.

You may, depending on the particular BIOS, be forced to select two different devices. Inwhich case you can select the hard drive as the first and the CD-Rom drive as the second. But eliminate the floppy from the sequence.

Also, disable the "seek floppy" on boot option.

Doing those things will prevent the floppy drive from becoming part of the boot sequence all together.

Maxwell

by justme2007

I won't have access to the computer for a while so I am just going to accept all of the answers given. Thanks for the effort. :)

by sheryl v

Good advice above, usually F1 or F8 in during the boot to get to set up. There may be a setting you can change depending on the computer/bios model. Remember if you remove floppy from boot sequence, you're bootable recovery disks won't work because the bootup process will ALWAYS ignore your floppy. Good luck.

by justme2007

I won't have access to the computer for a while so I am just going to accept all of the answers given. Thanks for the effort. :)

by joe

Try right clicking on MY COMPUTER than properties, than performance tab, than to file system at the botton, than floppy disk and uncheck "Search for new floppy disk drives each time your computer starts". Hope that helps

by justme2007

I won't have access to the computer for a while so I am just going to accept all of the answers given. Thanks for the effort. :)

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